In our years advising, founding, leading, and benefitting from nonprofit organizations, we have often seen them respond to these and other challenges by doubling down on rigorous, well-established ...
How organizations handle disagreement shapes not only their internal health, but also the civic capacities society depends on ...
How organizations handle disagreement shapes not only their internal health, but also the civic capacities society depends on.
How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning ...
A year of turbulence has exposed the dangers of philanthropic monocultures and upended assumptions about impact, effectiveness, and scale. Embracing the varied intentions that motivate people to give ...
If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. It’s everywhere. There are peer groups, ...
The other day, I read an excellent article by two social entrepreneurs who shut down their family planning project in Ghana when they realized it wasn’t working and never would. How and why they ...
As social trust declines and polarization seeps into workplaces, schools, and civic institutions, the questions of when and ...
How organizations handle disagreement shapes not only their internal health, but also the civic capacities society depends on ...
An excerpt from Tom Chi’s Climate Capital on building forward for the future we need.
Philanthropy's role in Minneapolis must be to build for after the current crisis passes.